That a US Secretary of State hailed the horrific death of someone – anyone – the way Hillary Clinton did in the case of Gadhafi would have been almost inconceivable in an earlier era: say, the 1950s or 1960s. That today no one so much as blinks tells us everything we need to know about the age in which we are living: to call it barbaric is to slander barbarians.

In the Democratic primaries of 2016 Hillary vs. a Black or Hispanic candidate, guess who wins the Democrat vote?
Not Hillary.
Only way Hillary makes it easily is the Democrats make sure no Black or Hispanic is running against her.

I think Clinton knows as well as anyone that her popularity always goes up when she’s being relatively un-political. The moment she reenters the political sphere the dynamics will change, and her unpopularity will go up. There’s also the issue that she may legitimately be tired of public life, or just physically tired in general. She and Playboy Bill have been at this electoral politics game for nearly 40 years.